@MTriana_MPP
That's a fairly palatable showing for the government in Venezuela, where they held their foothold in the Senate and only lost one net seat in the lower house to the conservative coalition. Venezuela is the swingiest of swing states, with a partisanship rating and demographic makeup that pretty closely mirrors the country as a whole, but I would hesitate to read too much into the tea leaes at this point. For one, the province's young and popular Governor, Asier Monagas (PB) likely had a dampening effect on some of the frenetic anti-establishmentism we've seen elsewhere, buttressing the political center. In an environment where you have a more polarizing figure in the governor's mansion, you might see more of a digression from the mean.
@IHonorato_MPP
And now it's off to the West Coat of South America, where the PB has historically enjoyed relatively strong support. They'll want to run up the margins as high as possible there, to give them some wiggle room heading into Middle America and Stephen Harper's backyard. Until then, we'll be doing some housekeeping on the results centre, adjusting for all the changes we've seen in the past couple hours.